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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Shimon Peres

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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
Poet
Politician
President Of Israel
Writer
Vishneva
Szymon Perski
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Conflict
Generations
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Culture
Today
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Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
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He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
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What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
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The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
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Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.
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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
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In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
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Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.
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One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.
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They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
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We have to be reasonable people.
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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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